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In the city of Akhtubinsk of the Astrakhan Region, the court session in the case against Elena Grigorieva, the member of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, accused of inciting religious hatred and enmity, was scheduled for March 27.

Chechnya has launched the republic's action "Call of Soul", which plans to collect at schools letters of pupils urging members of the armed underground to return to civilian life. The action was organized by the Committee on Youth Affairs of the republic's government.

The most dangerous inorganic toxin cyanide may get into the Black sea from a destroyed Georgian factory, Georgy Gachechiladze, leader of the ”Party of the Greens” of Georgia, told the journalists on March, 22.

The process against Victor Dvorakovsky and Vladimir Skirko accused of preparation of an act of terror and extremism in Stavropol regional court is closed for the press upon a request of the aggrieved policemen.

Savelovsky court of Moscow granted a suit to defend honour, dignity and business reputation of Aram Gabrelyanov, owner of “News Media” holding, against Deputy of State Duma Oleg Mikheev and obliged him to pay the plaintiff 40 thousand rubles compensation for moral damage.

On March 21, the city of Stepanakert hosted a presentation of the second issue of the literary almanac "Southern Caucasus", which included the works of writers and poets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.

In South Ossetia, for the first time during the last twenty years, 52 residents of the remote villages of Dmenis and Satikar of the Tskhinvali District were examined with use of a portable fluorography device.

On March 22, in Astrakhan, two persons stopped participating in the indefinite hunger strike because of their health and family reasons. However, other three Astrakhan residents joined the participants of the protest action. Thus, the number of protestors on hunger strike has increased up to 18 persons.

The Moscow City Court has extended the period of arrest of Islam and Ilez Yandiev, two figurants in the case of the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport, till June 4. This was announced by a representative at the press service of the Court.

Lawyer of the defendant Rasul Mirzaev, after whose stroke Moscow resident Ivan Agafonov died, has challenged the Article, under which the athlete faces up to 15 years of imprisonment.

Dagestani President Magomedsalam Magomedov dismissed Andrei Vinogradov from his position of the head of the Kizlyar District for a period of investigation. If the involvement of Andrei Vinogradov into the murder of 4 persons is proven, criminal proceedings shall be instituted against him. This was stated by the leader of the republic.

Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria extended for other three months the detention of 53 defendants in the case of the militants' attack on Nalchik committed on October 13, 2005. Kazbek Budtuev, Zalim Ulimbashev, and Sergey Kaziev face extension of the earlier pronounced pre-trial restriction – recognizance not to leave.

In connection with the riots in the city of Guba (Azerbaijan), Zaur Guliev, General Director of the regional TV Channel "Khayal", Vugar Gonagov, Executive Director, and Zaur Mustafaev, Advertising Editor, are accused of organizing actions aimed at disturbing public order or participation in that actions.

Rally against kidnapping of people, organized by relatives of Akav Khalidov, the disappeared resident of the village of Chontaul of the Kizilyurt District, was cancelled. The action was to be held today at 10:00 a.m. in Kizilyurt.

Ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva who was hospitalized with a hypertensic crisis in February declares that she is kept in hospital by force.

On March, 21, the Appellate court of Baku (ACB) left in custody three participants of a youth action of protest held on March, 17, in Baku who were sentenced to administrative arrests.

According to preliminary data, the question of growth of the opposition’s activity in Russia and its influence on the situation in the republics of the Caucasus will be discussed at “United Caucasian Forum” in Makhachkala, Taisa Isaeva, Chairperson of non-governmental organizations of Chechnya, told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

Employees of Turkish companies "Penta" and "Bora Inshaat", who planned to voice their problems on wage arrears at the Office of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Grozny, did not come to the meeting held on March 21 for safety reasons.

In the capital of Armenia, in the park near Mashtots Avenue, the Mayoralty initiated works on improvement of the park.

Starting from the second half of the day, in Dagestan, the repeated protest action is being conducted, during which the relatives of the persons killed in the brawl in Kizlyar again blocked the Federal Highway "Rostov-Baku". In total, the action involves more than 2000 persons.